Are you a learner at A2 English level (pre-intermediate) ? This section offers writing practice to help you write short, simple texts, notes and messages. Texts include messages, forum posts, personal profiles, forms and emails.
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A personal profile
Learn how to write a personal profile for a social app or website.
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An accommodation form
Learn how to fill in an accommodation preference form.
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An email about a business event
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An email cover letter
Learn how to write a cover letter or email to respond to a job advert.
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An email explaining a problem
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An email to ask a colleague to do something
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An expression of interest
Learn how to write an email to ask for more information and express interest.
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An online discussion forum
Learn how to write posts on an online forum.
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Instructions for a colleague
Learn how to write instructions for a colleague.
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Messaging to cancel a plan
Learn how to write text messages to cancel plans.
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Messaging to make plans
Learn how to write messages to make plans with friends.
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My last holiday
Learn how to write about your last holiday.
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Are you a pre-intermediate (CEFR level A2) learner of English? Practise and improve your writing skills with these texts and exercises.
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Look at the chat and do the exercises to improve your writing skills.
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A postcard from New York
Look at the postcard from New York and do the exercises to improve your writing skills.
A postcard from Scotland
Read about Jenny's holiday in Scotland and do the exercises to practise and improve your writing skills.
Look at the recipe and do the exercises to improve your writing skills.
A social network site
Look at the messages and do the exercises to improve your writing skills.
An email about sports
Look at the email and do the exercises to improve your writing skills.
An invitation
Look at the email and do the exercises to improve your punctuation and writing skills.
Film review
Look at the film review and do the exercises to improve your writing skills.
Invitation messages
Look at the exam question and letter and do the exercises to improve your writing skills.
Summer jobs
Look at the job advert and email and do the exercises to improve your writing skills.
The school trip
Look at the information about a school trip and do the exercises to improve your writing skills.
Trains and travel
Look at the two messages and do the exercises to improve your message writing skills.
Travelling abroad
Look at the email and do the exercises to improve your writing and spelling skills.
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- Writing correction code
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- Guided writing: Writing an article using the OHP
- A business letter
- Poems for the future
- Writing through 'reverse reading'
- Role-play writing
- Creating a framework for writing
- A perfect story
- Note writing
- A creative writing activity: A dark and stormy night
- Eliciting vocabulary before writing narratives
- Improving paragraph writing
- Songs and storytelling
- Freeze the writing - A way to make writing tasks a group activity
- Helping students organise argument essays
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For the A2 Key for Schools exam, these are: Content, Organisation and Language. 1. W riting Assessment Scale 2. W riting Assessment subscales 1. Assessment criteria 2. Assessment categories Each piece of writing gets four sets of marks for each of the subscales, from 0 (lowest) to 5 (highest). Bands (0–5) marks / scores / grades
A2 writing Are you a learner at A2 English level (pre-intermediate)? This section offers writing practice to help you write short, simple texts, notes and messages. Texts include messages, forum posts, personal profiles, forms and emails.
A2 writing Are you a pre-intermediate (CEFR level A2) learner of English? Practise and improve your writing skills with these texts and exercises. Choose a lesson A chat Look at the chat and do the exercises to improve your writing skills. 45 A postcard from New York
Description This lesson plan has been created to help students prepare for A2 Key for Schools Reading and Writing Part 7. This lesson plan can be delivered face to face or online. The ‘online options’ column gives teachers ideas about how the stages could be adapted for teaching online.
Pre-intermediate A2 | TeachingEnglish | British Council Home Teaching resources Teaching secondary Activities Pre-intermediate A2 Here you can find a range of short activities to use in your secondary classroom with students at pre-intermediate level.
Creating a framework for writing. A perfect story. Note writing. A creative writing activity: A dark and stormy night. Eliciting vocabulary before writing narratives. Improving paragraph writing. Songs and storytelling. Freeze the writing - A way to make writing tasks a group activity. Helping students organise argument essays.